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Re: What do you think of this?
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Originally Posted by edjen01
the sheep are not mine...so they cannot be stolen from me. the sheep belong to God...and if anyone tries to steal them away from Him...vengence is His...not mine.
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Edjen, I really think most people are smart enough to understand this. However, "sheep stealer" is a good word for people who sow division so they can personally reap the benefits of increasing the size of their own congregation. They are wolves.
I am VERY careful when fellowshipping with folks from other churches that I don't criticize their pastor/leadership, even if I disagree with them. To do so would be sowing discord. If someone wants to come to our church, I think we should welcome them, but still be courteous to their previous leadership. At the same time, we shouldn't be "welcoming" them before they even make a decision to move.
THAT is the problem. The welcoming of other saints is happening way too early in the game.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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